Mastodon @ OCF

Avaliable at https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu.

Updating to new version of Mastodon

Mastodon tracks releases on their GitHub Releases page. When there is a new release, we upgrade by doing the following.

1. Bump the version tag of the Mastodon repository that is checked out in the Makefile.

2. Update the patchset. To do this:

   • Clone the mastodon repository to some subdirectory.
   • Check out the release tag.
   • Run git am ../patches/* to apply the current patches as commits.
   • Resolve any conflicts, if they occur.
   • At this point, git log should show the tagged commit and then one commit for each patch.
   • Run git format-patch <tag> -o ../patches, where <tag> is the release tag, to write out the commits since <tag> as patch files.

3. Roll out the changes. Don't forget to follow any instructions specified on the releases page. If you need to run any commands (e.g. database migrations or other jobs), it's usualy easiest to just exec into a container running in Kubernetes.